One of country music's leading class clowns (reviled only by Roger Miller) and guitar greats has died. The Tennessean writes: Jerry Reed, country music's howling virtuoso and a star of stage, studio and screen, has died. Born Jerry Reed Hubbard, Mr. Reed suffered from emphysema and was in hospice care. He was 71, and he leaves [...]~~
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--- - |- Country singer, songwriter and guitarist, and sometime actor, Jerry Reed passed away today due to complications from emphysema. He was most well known for performing "Eastbound and Down," the theme song from the Burt Reynolds outlaw film 'Smokey and the Bandit ,' one of the movies in which he also starred. He was 71 years old. Jerry Reed "Eastbound and Down" ~~- Jerry Reed
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Did you make your re-post request yet? No? Well, time's running out. I aint gonna be generous forever, you know. Me am big angry Grinch. Well, not really, but if you don't ask, you can't get. Now then, everybody knows that Santa is a god-fearin' man, damnit. And we've got the right and righteous Rev.'s J.M. Gates, A.W. Nix, and Edward W. Clayborn to put us on the proper path to Holiday sa...
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As reported by Peter Cooper of The Tennessean, country music legend Jerry Reed has passed away today at age 71. "Jerry Reed, country music's howling virtuoso and a star of stage, studio and screen, has died. Born Jerry Reed Hubbard, Mr. Reed suffered from emphysema and was in hospice care. He was 71, and he [...]
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One more time I have quit smoking tobacco. So far the "patch" has failed..."pills" have failed....My willpower alone failed......But I have promised myself that this time I'm quitting. Slowly. I will never again buy a pack of Camel non-filters. Ever. I bought a can of bugler cigarette tobacco & some papers. I now must think about, and work for, each cigarette. Its been four days 14 ci...
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**Jerry Reed** passed away this week. A brief note was made here on the MOG.I'd like to mark his passing with a curiously timely track from almost 35 yrs ago.
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Since it's underrepresented here in MOGland, and since I'm in the mood, how bout a lil jamboree. Feel free to throw a track or vid in the comments. No better place to start a party than with the Alabama Wild Man, Jerry Reed, rest his soul...East Bound and DownIt's Got to Come Out
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